Lesson 3

Question 1

What are the two speciality roles in an Agile Team?

Answer 1

Scrum Master
Product Owner

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Question 2

How often do Agile teams deliver value?

Answer 2

every two weeks

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Question 3

Describe Scrum

Answer 3

Scrum is built on transparency, inspection, adaption, and short learning cycles

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Question 4

Describe Kanban

Answer 4

Kanban visualizes and optimizes the flow of work through the system

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Question 5

What are the roles and responsibilities of the Agile Team?

Answer 5

1) Create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria
2) define, build, test and deliver stories
3) develop and commit to team PI objectives and iteration plans

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Question 6

What are the roles and responsibilities of the Scrum Master?

Answer 6

1) coaches the agile team and facilitates team meetings
2) removes impediments and protects the team from outside influences
3) attends scrum of scrum meetings

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Question 7

What are the roles and responsibilities of the Product Owner?

Answer 7

1) Defines and accepts stories
2) acts as the customer for the developer questions
3) works with product management to plan Program Increments (PI)

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Question 8

What is a fundamental statement of the Core Value “Build Quality in”?

Answer 8

You can’t scale crappy code

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Question 9

What are Agile Release Trains (ARTs)? (Google definition)

Answer 9

a long lived, self-organizing team of Agile Teams, a virtual organization (5 to 12 teams) that plans, commits, and executes together

source: google

Question 10

What are Agile Release Trains (ARTs)? (handbook definition)

Answer 10

A virtual organization of 5 - 12 teams that is synchronized on a common cadence (a Program Increment - PI) and aligned to a common mission via a single Program Backlog

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Question 11

What are the roles on the Agile Release Train?

Answer 11

Release Train Engineer
System Architect/Engineering
Business Owners
Product Management
System Team

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Question 12

What is the responsibility of the Release Train Engineer?

Answer 12

acts as the chief Scrum Master for the train

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Question 13

What is the responsibility of the System Architect/Engineering?

Answer 13

provides architectural guidance and technical enablement to the teams on the train

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Question 14

What is the responsibility of the Business Owners?

Answer 14

key stakeholders on the Agile Release Train

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Question 15

What is the responsibility of Product Management?

Answer 15

owns, defines, and prioritizes the Program Backlog

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Question 16

What is the responsibility of the System Team?

Answer 16

provides processes and tools to integrate and evaluate assets early and often

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